...l rifle-pits.
These were protected by a force of nearly two thousand men, and a battery of guns, in command of Colonel Godwin, of the Fifty-fourth North-Carolina.
They were part of Ewell's corps, Early 's division.
It was about three o'clock when the head of the column neared the station.
A heavy line of skirmishers and sharp-shooters was thrown out to cover the advance of our batteries.
There...